[…] recently discovered sources, including journals, letters, petitions, and official documents but has elected to present a much-needed, de tailed description of the Missourians’ attitudes and activities. Many readers will disagree with LeSueur’s sometimes negative […]
[…] 1830 to the present, can be found in the Church Historian’s Library and Archives in Salt Lake City. The records in the Church Archives appear to be “honest” in the sense of presenting the […]
[…] story is largely drawn from the contemporary accounts of Joseph Lyman Jessop, a polygamist from Salt Lake City. Jessop was among a handful of men sent by priesthood leaders to Short Creek in May […]
[…] early Mormons were so committed to nonviolence that, reflecting back on the Mormons’ initial response to the Missouri turmoil, the disaffected John Corrill wrote in 1839: “So tenacious were they for the precepts of […]
[…] makes it clear that she is merely taking advantage of personal experience as a kind of heuristic de vice (not a term she herself uses) to gain entry into a larger historical land scape […]
[…] Graceland in 1969, he enrolled in Saint Paul School of Theology, a Methodist seminary in Kansas City, Missouri, which was conveniently located about fifteen minutes from the RLDS headquarters in Independence. A significant number […]
[…] red. She loved how Charlotte preferred to discuss the gospel while walking on the beach in Porte de Minimes even though it was still winter and windy, and Lucy could block out her companions […]
[…] are, after all, built by mere men. Professor Flanders’s first main error was to present inadequately the Missouri background of the Nauvoo period. The history of Nauvoo cannot be understood without some knowledge of […]
[…] W. Welch (Salt Lake City: Deseret Book, 2005), 83–98. Whitmer, An Address to All Believers in Christ ( Missouri: By the author, 1887), 13. On Smith’s seer stone and its use before his translating the […]
[…] of Civil War Threatens Hancock County.” Centralia (111.) Sentinel. 10 July 1978. “Nauvoo: Land of Mormon History.” De Kalb (111.) Chronicle. 17 August 1978. Unger, Robert. “Nauvoo Revisited.” Chicago Tribune. 30 July 1978. Wiggins, […]